FORMER Home Affairs and Defence minister Enos Nkala has been discharged from Bulawayo’s Mater Dei Hospital where he had been admitted for more than three weeks after he complained of kidney and heart problems.
Report by Nduduzo Tshuma
Nkala’s wife Thandiwe told NewsDay yesterday her husband was discharged on Saturday.
“He is feeling much better now. His condition has greatly improved and is now recovering from home,” she said.
Nkala, a close ally of President Robert Mugabe, is one of the founding members of Zanu PF. The party was formed at his Highfield house in Harare in 1963.
He left the government in a huff in the 1980s after being fingered in the infamous Willowgate scandal where top government officials bought vehicles from Willowvale Mazda Motor Industry at low prices and resold them at inflated values.
He is also accused of presiding over the Gukurahundi massacres where an estimated 20 000 villagers in Matabeleland and Midlands were killed by the Fifth Brigade during his tenure as Defence minister.
